Gilmar Mendes
Gilmar Ferreira Mendes is a Brazilian Justice of the Supremo Tribunal Federal , since being appointed by then President Fernando Henrique Cardoso in 2002. Mendes was also the Chief Justice for the 20082010 term and the SolicitorGeneral from 2000 to 2002.
Mendes was born in Diamantino, Mato Grosso. He graduated with a bachelors degree in Law from University of Braslia, received his Masters Degree in Law from the same university, another Masters Degree in Law from University of Mnster with the dissertation Presupposed Admissibility of the Abstract Norm Control in the Federal Constitutional Court and a PhD in Law from the same university with the thesis Abstract Norm Control in the Federal Constitutional Court and the Brazilian Supremo Tribunal Federal .
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